Symes Road
10 reports at 4 addresses in Hornby, the first in 2018, the latest 2025. 6 separate days somebody filed something about it.
Where it runs
Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Symes Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Hornby.
From the air, then
Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. LINZ, CC BY 3.0 NZ. Each frame is cut from Environment Canterbury’s historic imagery MapServer for that decade, only where the Footprints layer names a CC BY survey (NZAM-covered spots stay out). RetroLens holds more Crown aerials →
The addresses on it
- 2 Symes Road, 5 reports
- 7 Symes Road, 3 reports
- 4A Symes Road, 1 report
- 3 Symes Road, 1 report
What got reported
- Graffiti & vandalism, 6 reports
- Vehicles & parking, 2 reports
- Roads & footpaths, 1 report
- Everything else, 1 report
Year by year
- 2018, 1 report
- 2019, 5 reports
- 2020, 1 report
- 2024, 1 report
- 2025, 2 reports
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history.
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 28 April 1945)
· Papers Past,
…nard g lcpl mrs b hirst main road clevedon auckland aunt flynn james e pte mrs ml mumford symes road sockburn christchurch grandmother fraser vincent c v tpr mrs g e fraser 29 kabul street wairoa m ge…
The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →
The crash record on it
NZTA’s record names Symes Road in 13 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 4 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The corner the record returns to: Main South Road & Symes Road, 30 crashes pinned to the pairing.
As it was reported
The latest on it
Questions, answered briefly
In Hornby, Christchurch, New Zealand.
10 reports at 4 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (6), vehicles & parking (2), roads & footpaths (1).
2018, the record covers 6 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2025.
Main South Road and Symes Road, 30 police-reported crashes at the pairing.
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